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ronald reagan, remember, was governor of california, his second term. he started his career when he was 55, his first public office. a second term in california, he wanted to lead in more conservative legacy. he thought, let me pass an amendment to the california state constitution to cut state income taxes significantly and permanently. he campaigned all over the state. he was pretty popular, and he thought he would win. he lost pretty badly. californians said, no, we don't want to cut our state income taxes. we are voting against this because we believe in the things demint does. in fact, california had a great education system from primary school for university. they had a great highway system. they believe in government. then came that catastrophe was talking about, confusion and panic. five years later we get the famous proposition 13 to cut property taxes significantly. property taxes that pay for education by constitutional amendment. in those five years america changed. californians overwhelmingly voted to cut their property taxes. and a tax rev
ronald reagan, remember, was governor of california, his second term. he started his career when he was 55, his first public office. a second term in california, he wanted to lead in more conservative legacy. he thought, let me pass an amendment to the california state constitution to cut state income taxes significantly and permanently. he campaigned all over the state. he was pretty popular, and he thought he would win. he lost pretty badly. californians said, no, we don't want to cut our...
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she was against ronald reagan because -- she would have disliked ron paul because among abn.,ulposgs, likro vfely so all she would have hated ron paul. >> [inaudible] >> i think she would have just -- she would have dislike anybody asociated with n paul iean e wt. which not named after ayn rand come his name as randall. that is a genuine religion. his name isrn >>y toar o he ways. was that personal or philosophical? >> it was personal. ayn rand had 100% personal all the wood was represented differently at the time. shd ffairitntael doericldpu d her archaeological call her air of a matt of fact between 1952 and 1968. there was a ig split in the randmovement punand e 19ff and on through the 60's and nathaniel brandt wanted to break off and she didn't take kindly tothat. thwatviemdbuiy. eago and even the objective is movement acknowledges. so even though she takes all kinds of accusations against him, the accusations it wa a rsdipe etck ott om nahani braed about how the objective test. >> [inaudible] >> what's go [ind] >>be ay esycog d bamvy ceful author comer writing self-help
she was against ronald reagan because -- she would have disliked ron paul because among abn.,ulposgs, likro vfely so all she would have hated ron paul. >> [inaudible] >> i think she would have just -- she would have dislike anybody asociated with n paul iean e wt. which not named after ayn rand come his name as randall. that is a genuine religion. his name isrn >>y toar o he ways. was that personal or philosophical? >> it was personal. ayn rand had 100% personal all the...
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reagan came in and started finger painting the economy trying to fix the economy and the financial system as they saw that they thought it should be improved according to their their restoration so during this entire reign this is what happened in the u.s. study middle class suffered worst decade in modern history as we just stagnated share of income fell this was from pew research max and they found that in one nine hundred seventy the share of u.s. income that went to the middle class was sixty two percent while wealthier americans receive just twenty nine percent but by two thousand and ten the middle class garnered forty five percent of the nation's income tieing a low first reach in two thousand and six compared to forty six percent for upper income americans since two thousand the median income from america's middle class has fallen from seventy two thousand nine hundred fifty six to sixty nine thousand and four. and eighty seven right the economy in the us of the u.k. think of it as a river of cash that is generated by the output of those economy and the interaction of derivatives
reagan came in and started finger painting the economy trying to fix the economy and the financial system as they saw that they thought it should be improved according to their their restoration so during this entire reign this is what happened in the u.s. study middle class suffered worst decade in modern history as we just stagnated share of income fell this was from pew research max and they found that in one nine hundred seventy the share of u.s. income that went to the middle class was...
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in one nine hundred thirty six only the second president since world war two besides ronald reagan to win reelection with the jobless rate above six percent what do you think this says do you think that says that americans are hopeless about the job situation that they feel like neither candidate that mitt romney is not a solution to jobs but yet obama who hasn't been a solution to jobs they're willing to stick with i think there's a lot of things but the overall message is that americans have an extremely low self-esteem and low. expert. haitian standard they like to keep their expert this is very low because obviously because what i mean when you're we're talking about jobs i'm concerned about jobs you're not concerned because of your expectations or your ego you're concerned because you need to europe right what are you going to do what is it that you're for the people lauren obama are you kidding me am i saying romney's any better what exactly has obama done all the things that he was forced to do that on civil liberties i mean when i was reverse ya know the whole i'm sitting on t
in one nine hundred thirty six only the second president since world war two besides ronald reagan to win reelection with the jobless rate above six percent what do you think this says do you think that says that americans are hopeless about the job situation that they feel like neither candidate that mitt romney is not a solution to jobs but yet obama who hasn't been a solution to jobs they're willing to stick with i think there's a lot of things but the overall message is that americans have...
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that was the question ronald reagan asked in 1980. a new poll now asks likely voters the same question today. you know the answer. the question is by how much the numbers are going to surprise you. we'll have them when we come back. this is new york state. we built the first railway, the first trade route to the west, the greatest empires. then, some said, we lost our edge. well today, there's a new new york state. one that's working to attract businesses and create jobs. a place where innovation meets determination... and businesses lead the world. the new new york works for business. find out how it can work for yours at thenewny.com. >>> welcome back to "the kudlow report." i'm larry kudlow. in this half hour, today president obama tried to change the debates to soak the rich taxes and give it away in friday's jobs report. class war fare won't work. new tonight treasury secretary tim geithner meets with senate democrats but i bet there are enough democrats willing to run away from the president and pass an extension of all the bush
that was the question ronald reagan asked in 1980. a new poll now asks likely voters the same question today. you know the answer. the question is by how much the numbers are going to surprise you. we'll have them when we come back. this is new york state. we built the first railway, the first trade route to the west, the greatest empires. then, some said, we lost our edge. well today, there's a new new york state. one that's working to attract businesses and create jobs. a place where...
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reagan was president you can see how the rest is divided up there now if we stay on the path we've been going the national debt will reach twenty trillion dollars by two thousand and fifteen and according to jim quinn of burning platform on a hedge post if interest rates normalized to the same level they were in two thousand and seven which was five percent annual interest expense would be a trillion dollars or forty five percent of current tax revenue and if you want something more official the c.b. you know says the debt will reach twenty one point seven trillion by twenty twenty two now according to u.s. census data the share of the population that is working has fallen to its lowest level since women started entering the workforce in large numbers three decades ago you could see there it's forty five point four percent of americans that had jobs jobs continue to be an issue and if you don't have jobs you don't have a stable economy in you don't have a stable currency and then there's the unfunded liabilities including medicare medicaid social security they exceed sixty trillion doll
reagan was president you can see how the rest is divided up there now if we stay on the path we've been going the national debt will reach twenty trillion dollars by two thousand and fifteen and according to jim quinn of burning platform on a hedge post if interest rates normalized to the same level they were in two thousand and seven which was five percent annual interest expense would be a trillion dollars or forty five percent of current tax revenue and if you want something more official...
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supreme court and ronald reagan. >> ron paul, rand paul, who they say is not named after ryan rand. they just picked rand out of a hat. likely. what is the actual connection between alan greenspan and ayn rand. >> he was a member of her collective, the small group of people who coalesced around her in the 1950s. he was a high member of her others. he was number three in her rank of accolades. she was one of the chief apostles. he was like the apostle paul of the ayn rand movement. number two and number three up through the 1960s. >> cenk: that's amazing. >> he wrote essays for her books, and her newsletter. >> cenk: i didn't know that. and for those who don't know, alan greenspan was head of the federal reserve board. during the economic collapse, and all leading up to it, he said we don't need to regulate. we don't need to regulate the market. and it turns out he was wrong. after the collapse he said, i was wrong. it turns out we need to regulate the market. who said not to regulate the market, ayn rand. the fact that they looked up to her is amazing. talk to me more about her phil
supreme court and ronald reagan. >> ron paul, rand paul, who they say is not named after ryan rand. they just picked rand out of a hat. likely. what is the actual connection between alan greenspan and ayn rand. >> he was a member of her collective, the small group of people who coalesced around her in the 1950s. he was a high member of her others. he was number three in her rank of accolades. she was one of the chief apostles. he was like the apostle paul of the ayn rand movement....
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we'll discuss how mitt romney is the most underrated politician since ronald reagan. and the dow closes down again today, six days in a row, 31 points. coming back from triple-digits drops but investors aren't happy with the economy. and the new york fed out with a study saying if it weren't for federal reserve stimulus, markets would be 50% lower. to that i say nonsense! profits are the mother's milk of stock, not a bunch of phony money. but first up tonight, a key member of president obama's reelection team drops an over-the-top bain bombshell on an open press call. take a listen. >> either mitt romney through his own words and his own signature was misrepresenting his position at bain to the s.e.c., which is a felony, or he was misrepresenting his position at bain to the american people to avoid responsibility for some of the consequences of his investment. >> all right. you heard that right, felony. let's talk to cnbc contributor robert costa. i would use the word "obama utter desperation." how do you read this? >> this is part of the obama campaign's focus on bai
we'll discuss how mitt romney is the most underrated politician since ronald reagan. and the dow closes down again today, six days in a row, 31 points. coming back from triple-digits drops but investors aren't happy with the economy. and the new york fed out with a study saying if it weren't for federal reserve stimulus, markets would be 50% lower. to that i say nonsense! profits are the mother's milk of stock, not a bunch of phony money. but first up tonight, a key member of president obama's...
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she endorsed barry goldwater and opposed ronald reagan because he catered to the christian right. she oppose racism and the civil-rights act of 1964. she believed big business was a persecuted minority. but did not speak out when big business discriminated against real minorities including the one to which she belongs. despise it these and the draft. she was an elitist who adored mickey spillane. with a fierce advocate of individualism, indifferent to criticism. she fell into deep depressions when her final and grandest novel "atlas shrugged" was critically skewered. she called the philosophy she invented objectivism. to rand and her disciples it would be a triumph of productivity and justice. freedom would sweep the halls of power and the boudoir of like. being thrown out of the house, marriage vows with the option burgess as they were for rand. government would be reduced to three functions, the armed services, the police and the courts. income-tax is would end and so would everything taxes paid for. today her vision of radical capitalism has never been more popular. she is the
she endorsed barry goldwater and opposed ronald reagan because he catered to the christian right. she oppose racism and the civil-rights act of 1964. she believed big business was a persecuted minority. but did not speak out when big business discriminated against real minorities including the one to which she belongs. despise it these and the draft. she was an elitist who adored mickey spillane. with a fierce advocate of individualism, indifferent to criticism. she fell into deep depressions...
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>> guest: yes, ronald reagan tried to do that. it always amazes me. icann has become one of my most beloved presidents in all the polls and everything else. people forget some of the stuff that happened. he wanted to change the direction of civil rights. he wanted to make sure civil rights passed in the 60s weren't enforced the way they're supposed to to be enforced, so he decided to replace all the commissioners because they were standing up and watchdogging at restorations so they said okay, they got into the fight because when they got to be ready to change me, i see them. i won the lawsuit. the court said the commission is supposed to be a watchdog. i used to say should be a watchdog, not a lapdog for the administration. they succeeded in changing the direction of the commission. even though we were able to get some traction during my time, things i wish ricoh are, out of the 20,000 election about the commission has never been the same. so reagan in a sense succeeded in making it a body that couldn't listen and was not independent and kept trying
>> guest: yes, ronald reagan tried to do that. it always amazes me. icann has become one of my most beloved presidents in all the polls and everything else. people forget some of the stuff that happened. he wanted to change the direction of civil rights. he wanted to make sure civil rights passed in the 60s weren't enforced the way they're supposed to to be enforced, so he decided to replace all the commissioners because they were standing up and watchdogging at restorations so they said...
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. >> you tell them what ronald reagan told me in '93, social security going broke in 2011. he pushed my liability from 65 to 66. that put it in shape. >> how much does one or two yearsed t retirement mean? >> a lot. it compounds over time and the period of time you do it. my grandchildren, age 70, not 67. second i'm not beyond means testing colas. maybe shouldn't be as high as for the bottom end. when the president is sitting in an ivory tower or in detroit and we're trying to do the people's business. >> where do you think the real compromise is coming out? do you believe john boehner and president obama this weekend had a serious discussion? where are we really in this compromise? >> well, i've learned a long time ago up here what you don't know sometimes can kill you. if you don't know anything, it means something is going on. i hope they had substantial negotiations. >> you have no idea if it's true. >> too many people negotiating is a bad thing. >> you can't have 500 people in a room negotiating, right? you have been pretty vocal over the debt ceiling debate. very soon
. >> you tell them what ronald reagan told me in '93, social security going broke in 2011. he pushed my liability from 65 to 66. that put it in shape. >> how much does one or two yearsed t retirement mean? >> a lot. it compounds over time and the period of time you do it. my grandchildren, age 70, not 67. second i'm not beyond means testing colas. maybe shouldn't be as high as for the bottom end. when the president is sitting in an ivory tower or in detroit and we're trying to...
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. >> you cite in your notes here, you remind us that president ronald reagan in 1984 ordered action in sigonella in the mediterranean area in 90 minutes after learning about problems he ordered action. in 90 minutes. these guys had six, seven hours and more. reagan did that. >> i had the honor of working for president regan and when issues like that came up, he just said go. they are americans help them and in this particular case ironically it was sigonella and the terrorists were on board an aircrafter and he said go get them and if you have to shoot them down. >> up cite in your article this is so important i have quoted it and i know other people in other networks have quoted it, you say that there was a 5:00 p.m. meeting in the oval office between president obama, vice president biden, and defense secretary leon panetta that was on 9/11. and by 5:00 p.m. eastern time they would have had already two of the three emails. what do you think happened? do you think at that meeting they decided to hatch this cock and bull story and not to allow the troops to go and not to play this highe
. >> you cite in your notes here, you remind us that president ronald reagan in 1984 ordered action in sigonella in the mediterranean area in 90 minutes after learning about problems he ordered action. in 90 minutes. these guys had six, seven hours and more. reagan did that. >> i had the honor of working for president regan and when issues like that came up, he just said go. they are americans help them and in this particular case ironically it was sigonella and the terrorists were...
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we have not touched it since ronald reagan. bill clinton raised at one point, but we have not done anything to touch the rates. the flow of capital investment and people is going to follow up of countries that have a more competitive environment. we have reformed the tax code and when we do that, you will get more revenue, it is guaranteed. we talked about earlier, there are opportunities here, for us as a country. for the joint tax analysis and what it could mean for macro- economic growth, ultimately it will lead to more growth. >> but if the president insists and says as he did last friday that this was fought over in the campaign and we fought over rising tax rates the white house tax secretary said the president would veto every bill that extends the current tax rate. if he insists that they go up, what would your recommendation be? >> having looked in two -- having worked in two white houses, first you want a president that can veto the -- the fiscal secretary, first of all. first of all, it was a bit behind the curve. it
we have not touched it since ronald reagan. bill clinton raised at one point, but we have not done anything to touch the rates. the flow of capital investment and people is going to follow up of countries that have a more competitive environment. we have reformed the tax code and when we do that, you will get more revenue, it is guaranteed. we talked about earlier, there are opportunities here, for us as a country. for the joint tax analysis and what it could mean for macro- economic growth,...
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ronald reagan was never driven by ideological. he wanted limited government but he used it many times and he would work with the other party now. he talks about it just -- republican party is having difficulty facing up to the fact if you look at what happened during the first eight years of the century, it was under republican direction. republican leadership got us into this mess. thank you. ♪ let's hear it for the boy ♪ ♪ let's give the boy a hand ♪ >> stephanie: he said the same thing we've said. they wouldn't have nixon or eisenhower. >> they wouldn't have him. >> stephanie: by the way the obama campaign not mincing their tweets. he tweeted yesterday i'll stop blaming bush when mitt romney wants to stop returning to his failed policies. they also tweeted about romney, load up a steel mill with debt bankrupt and walk away with millions. [ applause ] the president on the view talking. >> the central thing is the economy. america continues to be this extraordinary land of opportunity. >> stephanie: did you see him on the
ronald reagan was never driven by ideological. he wanted limited government but he used it many times and he would work with the other party now. he talks about it just -- republican party is having difficulty facing up to the fact if you look at what happened during the first eight years of the century, it was under republican direction. republican leadership got us into this mess. thank you. ♪ let's hear it for the boy ♪ ♪ let's give the boy a hand ♪ >> stephanie: he said the...
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ronald reagan did it with a democratic house after a resounding second term victory. as did bill clinton with the republican controlled house and republican controlled senate after a more resounding second term victory then president obama. both examples, both of them, illustrate the rare opportunity that divided government presents. president obama can follow suit or he can take the extremist view that both reagan and clinton rejected by founding his nose at the other side and insisting that if republicans are not willing to do things his way he will not do anything at all. if the president is serious, he will follow the lead of president reagan and clinton. if he is really serious, he will put the campaign rhetoric aside, propose a realistic resolution that can pass a republican controlled house and a divided senate, and work to get it done. if the president acts in this spirit, i have no doubt he will have the support of his own party and a willing partner in hours. the american people will criticize of relief knowing not only that we have avoided a crisis, but tha
ronald reagan did it with a democratic house after a resounding second term victory. as did bill clinton with the republican controlled house and republican controlled senate after a more resounding second term victory then president obama. both examples, both of them, illustrate the rare opportunity that divided government presents. president obama can follow suit or he can take the extremist view that both reagan and clinton rejected by founding his nose at the other side and insisting that...
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president obama doesn't have much in common with ronald reagan. the difference between the two men is fairly simple. was a long to spread the wealth. the other to spread freedom. in my book "scorpions for breakfast" i tell of my meeting with president obama in the oval office. one 9 look him in the eye and i told him i didn't want to talk about his so-called comprehensive immigration reform. our border with out of control. i stand here today aiming to make a case on the subject of america's border with mexico and immigration policy. i know my words will be distorted by those who disagree. my opponents have already painted me as hardest and and compassionate. they are wrong. my record, my life, how long the critics are. it has nothing to do with skin color, nothing to do with extremism. instead it is rooted in freedom. it shares the spirit of our founding fathers request to form a more perfect union leaders will establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of l
president obama doesn't have much in common with ronald reagan. the difference between the two men is fairly simple. was a long to spread the wealth. the other to spread freedom. in my book "scorpions for breakfast" i tell of my meeting with president obama in the oval office. one 9 look him in the eye and i told him i didn't want to talk about his so-called comprehensive immigration reform. our border with out of control. i stand here today aiming to make a case on the subject of...
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ronald reagan doesn't so great. a lot of very bad things happening during that time and they use that as a justification for their very extreme policies. so it's important that progressives and democrats fight back a little because they are using reagan to justify some really bad stuff. >> cliff it seems to me in this election year when the economy is such an issue, the main one is that trickle down didn't work. we just read a quote yesterday about how this version of the republican party is just completely divorced by reality. >> that's right. david stockman basically said that they were not interested in deficit reduction or anything of the sort. what they basically want to do is kill anything connected to social programs anything connected to easing the -- the -- the strain on -- on -- on poor people or whoever it may be in order to justify their tax cuts and the like. so, you know, it was a fraud, and listen i'm not sitting here and saying that ronald reagan did nothing that was good. i'm not interested in -- in
ronald reagan doesn't so great. a lot of very bad things happening during that time and they use that as a justification for their very extreme policies. so it's important that progressives and democrats fight back a little because they are using reagan to justify some really bad stuff. >> cliff it seems to me in this election year when the economy is such an issue, the main one is that trickle down didn't work. we just read a quote yesterday about how this version of the republican party...
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romney won a higher percentage of the white vote than any candidate since ronald reagan in 1994 beating obama among white voters. by 14 points among white women. five points among independents. he won all the groups by more than george w. bush did in 2004. but he lost the election by a wider margin than john kerry. why? because the composition of the electorate changed. as the obama campaign predicted more than a year ago, the white portion dropped from 2008 to 72% in 2012. the president carried nearly eight in ten nonwhite voters including astounding 71% of latinos, 73% of the asian voters and 93% of black voters. remains a real question why the democratic nominee can hold the obama coalition together but the republican party is right to be reexamining the relationship with minorities. finally, lesson four, don't ignore the data. the polls matter and more are right than wrong. though public polling consistently showed the president ahead, the romney campaign sin veerly believed that romney would win. why? they assumed it would be wider and older than it was. the enthusiasm numbers favo
romney won a higher percentage of the white vote than any candidate since ronald reagan in 1994 beating obama among white voters. by 14 points among white women. five points among independents. he won all the groups by more than george w. bush did in 2004. but he lost the election by a wider margin than john kerry. why? because the composition of the electorate changed. as the obama campaign predicted more than a year ago, the white portion dropped from 2008 to 72% in 2012. the president...
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so the letters show many, many things about ronald reagan. one of the important ones that comes through to me is his instinct for the human being. human freedom was one of the great motivating beliefs that ronald reagan had. and let me just tell a story that illustrates this side of it. maybe many of you are not aware that the first deal ronald reagan did with the soviet union was a human rights deal. it involved getting the pentecostals, a religious group, i think five or seven of them had rushed into our embassy during the carter administration . and you couldn't expel them because you knew what the soviets would do to them. and so they were sitting there and they were kind of a symbol of what's wrong with that system . and with me as kind of a midwife, i helped to arrange a meeting of the ambassador with president reagan. and it was a result of a dinner that you invited my wife and i to over in the white house one snowy evening. it was so snowy that the reagans couldn't get a chopper to take them to camp david. they couldn't get a car to t
so the letters show many, many things about ronald reagan. one of the important ones that comes through to me is his instinct for the human being. human freedom was one of the great motivating beliefs that ronald reagan had. and let me just tell a story that illustrates this side of it. maybe many of you are not aware that the first deal ronald reagan did with the soviet union was a human rights deal. it involved getting the pentecostals, a religious group, i think five or seven of them had...
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romney won a higher percentage of the white vote since any candidate since ronald reagan in 1984. he won by 20 point with whites, he won with women, 56% to 42%. but he lost the election, why? as the obama campaign predicted, the white portion of the electoral dropped. the president carried nearly 8 in 10 non-white voters including 71% of latinos, 73% of asian voters, a whopping 93% of black voters. it remains a real question whether the democratic nominee no 2016 will be able to hold the coalition closer. finally, lesson four. don't ignore the data. the polls matter, more of them are right than wrong. though public polling in the swing states showed the president ahead, the romney campaign sincerely believed until election day that romney would win. why? romney's pollsters assumed the electoral would be wider and older than it turned out to be. the enthusiasm numbers did favor them, but they didn't have enough voters. more than any cycle in recent memory, many republicans bought into an alternative poling universe. in 2016, much of the emphases in both parties will be to match and
romney won a higher percentage of the white vote since any candidate since ronald reagan in 1984. he won by 20 point with whites, he won with women, 56% to 42%. but he lost the election, why? as the obama campaign predicted, the white portion of the electoral dropped. the president carried nearly 8 in 10 non-white voters including 71% of latinos, 73% of asian voters, a whopping 93% of black voters. it remains a real question whether the democratic nominee no 2016 will be able to hold the...
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then ronald reagan came in and even bill clinton lowered and reduced spending as a share of gdp, and the stock market exploded, and now in the last decade, under president bush and then obama, government spending has shot up again. no wonder stocks have been flat for the past decade. connell: they have been for a long time. i want to ask you one more question because i think it is important. you come on the show all the time and you have been saying -- well, you have been a relative optimist on the economy. in other words, you have been saying to people hey, this is not a mess. this economy is not collapsing. but you're essentially making the argument for what is the mitt romney economic plan or something close to it. so unlike others who support romney, they might say boy this economy is a mess, you have to get rid of it and try something different. you are making a very different political argument. you say things are getting better and we need to try something different. >> not that they are getting better. look we are only growing 2%. and we have 8% unemployment. that's a french-
then ronald reagan came in and even bill clinton lowered and reduced spending as a share of gdp, and the stock market exploded, and now in the last decade, under president bush and then obama, government spending has shot up again. no wonder stocks have been flat for the past decade. connell: they have been for a long time. i want to ask you one more question because i think it is important. you come on the show all the time and you have been saying -- well, you have been a relative optimist on...
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ronald reagan. ronald reagan. ronald reagan. president reagan. >> but in his diaries, reagan mentioned gingrich only once. reagan criticized gingrich saying "newt's ideas would cripple our defense programs." on leadership and character, gingrich is no ronald reagan. >> last night, gingrich returned fire on the attack. >> governor romney was against ronald reagan. governor romney 1994 senate race he was opposed to going back to the reagan/bush policies. governor romney was giving money to democrats to suggest that governor romney is more reagan-like than i am is an act of total fantasy. >> the candidates were doing their best to play to the hometown florida crowd. some other remarks. >> could you be the first hispanic president? >> i would love to be able to convince people of that particular any a florida primary. i don't think people would think i was being honest with them if i said i was mexican-american but i appreciate it you would get that word out. >> by the end of my second term -- [ cheers and applausecha
ronald reagan. ronald reagan. ronald reagan. president reagan. >> but in his diaries, reagan mentioned gingrich only once. reagan criticized gingrich saying "newt's ideas would cripple our defense programs." on leadership and character, gingrich is no ronald reagan. >> last night, gingrich returned fire on the attack. >> governor romney was against ronald reagan. governor romney 1994 senate race he was opposed to going back to the reagan/bush policies. governor...
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where is ronald reagan. do you remember he was an actor you fools. you put statues you revere ronald reagan, the actor who acted with a monkey and who by the way gave amnesty. karl rove will run this asinine ad showing obama in a cool light. [ [ ♪ rock ♪ ] ♪ i'm ♪ so in love with you ♪ [ ♪ music ♪ ] >> cenk: all right. so that was pretty cool. depressing couple of shots for two seconds. the rest of it, i want to hang out with that guy and if he's taking me to a party with kim kardashian, that's awesome. both sides have celebrities. so obama had sarah jessica parker. george clooney, will smith robber deniro, chris rock, on romney's side you have donald trump, jeff foxworthy ted nugent and jean gene simmons. maybe his celebrities are more clownish. president obama has had to do a ton of fundraising. he did 164 fundraisers. and that even crushes bush's record in that same time frame. and i think liberal reagan did three with the rnc. that shows you how much the times have changed. let's bring everybody back in here. dorothy lucey michael m
where is ronald reagan. do you remember he was an actor you fools. you put statues you revere ronald reagan, the actor who acted with a monkey and who by the way gave amnesty. karl rove will run this asinine ad showing obama in a cool light. [ [ ♪ rock ♪ ] ♪ i'm ♪ so in love with you ♪ [ ♪ music ♪ ] >> cenk: all right. so that was pretty cool. depressing couple of shots for two seconds. the rest of it, i want to hang out with that guy and if he's taking me to a party with...
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sincerely, ronald reagan. richard sweat, a new hampshire democratic congressman said ronald reagan turned his vote to a yes. he was then attacked by the gun lobby and he lost his re-election campaign in 1994. we know what president reagan would be saying today if he were still with us. he would support diane feinstein's bill just like he did in 1994. the reaganite position is to support feinstein's assault weapons ban. but self proclaimed reaganite newt gingrich has not been talking about the assault weapons ban in the aftermath of the killing of children and women in newtown, connecticut. newt gingrich doesn't blame the easy availability of assault weapons in this country for the murder of 26 at the sandy hook elementary school. he blames this. >> an anti-religious secular bureaucracy, and secular judiciary, seeking to drive god out of public life. >> newt gingrich was one of the members of congress who received that letter in 1994 co-signed by president reagan, asking him to vote yes on a ban on the domestic
sincerely, ronald reagan. richard sweat, a new hampshire democratic congressman said ronald reagan turned his vote to a yes. he was then attacked by the gun lobby and he lost his re-election campaign in 1994. we know what president reagan would be saying today if he were still with us. he would support diane feinstein's bill just like he did in 1994. the reaganite position is to support feinstein's assault weapons ban. but self proclaimed reaganite newt gingrich has not been talking about the...
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but it was ronald reagan. he was drinking a screwdriver, and he was sitting there drinking, like, there wasn't any secret service people there and i were standing there and he was just kind of standard and it was made a couple people. been a photographer. it's not like now everybody is like this, you know. unless they had some twitch. so i, like did what i would normally, i went up and i said hello to but i didn't say hello to him. i said i'm not. [laughter] >> and he just looked at me and bobby have -- it's nice to have those people cto the dinners. w compassionate. anyway, i endedup in h kitchen. i ate his dinner, tied to the secret service guy. it was raining. it's fitting i'm here. i think i have something in common with ronald reagan. he was governor of california. i lived in california. [laughter] he was once a democrat. i once bought a counterfeit watch from times square. same thing. everybody makes mistakes. as an actor, he starred opposed a three-foot every chance named bonzo. i worked with bob dougla
but it was ronald reagan. he was drinking a screwdriver, and he was sitting there drinking, like, there wasn't any secret service people there and i were standing there and he was just kind of standard and it was made a couple people. been a photographer. it's not like now everybody is like this, you know. unless they had some twitch. so i, like did what i would normally, i went up and i said hello to but i didn't say hello to him. i said i'm not. [laughter] >> and he just looked at me...
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that's what ronald reagan did. it worked. we need to invite these reforming democrats, you know, erskine bowles, alice rivlin, the medicare ideas we've talked about, john bro, alice rivlin, ron wyden, they're all saying this is the best way to save this program. so we these to invite those democrats into our coalition, work with them so we can fix this country's problems not by cramming our vision of saving the country down their throat like they did, but by bringing the country together. tax reform and medicare reform, perfect examples, two of the biggest ideas that we have to do, and there are plenty of democrats who agree with what we're saying. so what we need to do is win, be magnanimous and include them in a coalition just like ronald reagan and tip o'neill did, and i think that's the secret to success. that's not the kind of democrats you have right now running congress or in the white house. but they do exist be, and so we need to invite them into the coalition. [applause] >> kind of a specific question here regarding
that's what ronald reagan did. it worked. we need to invite these reforming democrats, you know, erskine bowles, alice rivlin, the medicare ideas we've talked about, john bro, alice rivlin, ron wyden, they're all saying this is the best way to save this program. so we these to invite those democrats into our coalition, work with them so we can fix this country's problems not by cramming our vision of saving the country down their throat like they did, but by bringing the country together. tax...
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because this is the first speech i have given on ronald reagan. i have four books at out right now that the same time. it is driving me crazy. but i made notes on re again in case i open my mouth and nothing comes out. the reason i was approached to write the book and i accepted is because i realized two or three years ago my daughter caroline ad, 10 at the time, there were not teaching modern contemporary presidents or politics at all. yadda realizes politics is all around us. everyday they get a big dose of politics. they don't have tools to look up presidents. maybe there are a few books on other presidents and i the hot i would start a trend. i selected reagan because he was the most interesting of those contemporary presidents going back to john kennedy because of his childhood and his life. i like to write about movie stars but i have met to every president since kennedy, i was a reporter in washington 10 years. amid johnson, nixon, and ford when he was in the house. i met to carter coming into new york, i came and on sunday night and stoppe
because this is the first speech i have given on ronald reagan. i have four books at out right now that the same time. it is driving me crazy. but i made notes on re again in case i open my mouth and nothing comes out. the reason i was approached to write the book and i accepted is because i realized two or three years ago my daughter caroline ad, 10 at the time, there were not teaching modern contemporary presidents or politics at all. yadda realizes politics is all around us. everyday they...
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who is this in a reagan mask but it was ronald reagan. he was drinking a screwdriver and he was sitting there drinking. there weren't really any service people there and i was standing there. he was kind of standing there and they had a photographer there. it's not like now where everybody is like this. so why did what i would normally do, at one up to them and said hello to him but i didn't say hello. i said -- [laughter] he just looked at me and said -- it's nice that they have those people come to these dinners. how compassionate. anyway i ended up in the kitchen. i ate his dinner and talk to the secret service guy, played the piano. remember her? don't worry. it's fitting i'm here. i think i have something in common with ronald reagan. he was governor of california. i lived in california. [laughter] he was once a democrat. via once bought a counterfeit watch in times square. the same thing. everybody makes mistakes. as an actor, i opposed a three-foot hairy chimp made bonzo. i worked with -- no, no, no. that was cheap. that was cheap.
who is this in a reagan mask but it was ronald reagan. he was drinking a screwdriver and he was sitting there drinking. there weren't really any service people there and i was standing there. he was kind of standing there and they had a photographer there. it's not like now where everybody is like this. so why did what i would normally do, at one up to them and said hello to him but i didn't say hello. i said -- [laughter] he just looked at me and said -- it's nice that they have those people...
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reagan and covered ronald reagan, to see documents that say ronald reagan is and in former, not an informant but and in former. maybe you could show us how you could determine that. >> that began in hollywood right after world war ii. one night in 1946 fbi agents knocked on ronald reagan's door and told him of that there were communists and liberal groups he was involved in and as reagan rose in his memoir, these fbi agents opened my eyes to a good many things. what documents show is what reagan only hinted at, that reagan -- provided information about fellow actors and his opponents and the screen actors guild, and j. edgar hoover repaid those favors. here is one document here is one document about reagan and the fbi. >> can you read that out there. >> i will summarize and then go to the pertinent part. this is a document from august 4th, 1947, and is a report on the fbi's investigation into hollywood. one of the areas the fbi was looking at was alleged communist infiltration of labor unions. one of the main unions is the screen actors guild, you can see here this is the index, and the scre
reagan and covered ronald reagan, to see documents that say ronald reagan is and in former, not an informant but and in former. maybe you could show us how you could determine that. >> that began in hollywood right after world war ii. one night in 1946 fbi agents knocked on ronald reagan's door and told him of that there were communists and liberal groups he was involved in and as reagan rose in his memoir, these fbi agents opened my eyes to a good many things. what documents show is what...
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reagan but four legged, with the constitution being one of the vitally important legs we had forgotten about. people like wendy jenson, our best volunteer, 5,000 phone calls. a few days before the primary because she was someone dealing with a disability, dealing with an illness, she passed away shortly before the talk us, but was someone that i remembered, her passion for the least of us, those who are on the margins of society as many would have looked at her. folks, even today because of our daughter bella, came to our rallies, one after another in wheelchairs, bringing their special needs children, holding up signs of children saying i'm for bella's dad. just a beautiful idea of again not my story but their stories was what really fueled our campaign and gave us the energy, at a time when over and over again, we were told forget it, you can't win. we were winning in a different way because we were touching hearts, raising issues that well, frankly a lot of people didn't want to have raise the. our best phone caller after iowa was a young man who came to our first event in oklahoma
reagan but four legged, with the constitution being one of the vitally important legs we had forgotten about. people like wendy jenson, our best volunteer, 5,000 phone calls. a few days before the primary because she was someone dealing with a disability, dealing with an illness, she passed away shortly before the talk us, but was someone that i remembered, her passion for the least of us, those who are on the margins of society as many would have looked at her. folks, even today because of our...
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lewinsky. >> ronald reagan pushed through a tax overhaul in his second term. he also became embroiled in the iran contra affair. >> a few months ago, i told the american people i did not trade arms for hostages. my heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not. >> there is a bright side, if lincoln hadn't had a second term, he wouldn't have won the civil war. reagan's place in history was cemented by the end of the cold war, and fdr would have been remembered as the president who didn't end the great depression. still, second terms, they don't last four years. they're shorter than that. how long will obama have? is he aware that his second term domestically only lasts about a year to 18 months? finally, political junkies know we don't have to wait until 2016 or even 2014 for our next fix. just next year, we have blockbuster races for governor in two big states, virginia and new jersey. virginia, the clinton versus the tea party, as former democratic national leader takes on republican chair, ken puccin
lewinsky. >> ronald reagan pushed through a tax overhaul in his second term. he also became embroiled in the iran contra affair. >> a few months ago, i told the american people i did not trade arms for hostages. my heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not. >> there is a bright side, if lincoln hadn't had a second term, he wouldn't have won the civil war. reagan's place in history was cemented by the end of the...
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. >> that wild-eyed class warrior, was ronald reagan. he thought in america the wealthiest should pay their fair share and he said so. i know that might disqualify him from the republican primaries these days but what ronald reagan was calling for then is the same thing we're calling for now. a return to equality and fairness. and if it will help convince folks in congress to make the right choice, we could call it the reagan rule instead of the buffet rule. [ laughter ] >> but this vote is coming up i'm asking every american who agrees with me so call your members of congress, email them tweet them, tell them to start asking everybody to do their fair share and play by the same rules, so that every american who is willing to work hard has a chance at similar success so that we're making the investments that help this economy grow so that we're able to bring down our deficits in a fair and balanced and sensible way. tell them to pass the buffet rule. i'm going to keep on making this case across the country because i believe that this rul
. >> that wild-eyed class warrior, was ronald reagan. he thought in america the wealthiest should pay their fair share and he said so. i know that might disqualify him from the republican primaries these days but what ronald reagan was calling for then is the same thing we're calling for now. a return to equality and fairness. and if it will help convince folks in congress to make the right choice, we could call it the reagan rule instead of the buffet rule. [ laughter ] >> but this...
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and this is why if ronald reagan is interesting. he goes to eureka college, tiny little place and if you study closely what you can see it's like harry truman who didn't finish college, only modern president didn't have a college degree, they both of their particular political the machinations or their own self education. in ronald reagan's defense case it is the years in hollywood and traveling around the country when he's reading of the early modern classics of the american conservative movement whitaker chambers witness, the economics and one was in his reading and the speeches, he's doing all of that on his island. i think it's possible but ronald reagan could have been ruined by the conventional ivy league education. and, so that would be the most interesting. harry truman read history from a very early age and one of the things he says, and i quote in my book, something like a person sits here at this desk in the oval office ought to know his american history. good for him. contrast sharply, i can't resist, contrast sharply wi
and this is why if ronald reagan is interesting. he goes to eureka college, tiny little place and if you study closely what you can see it's like harry truman who didn't finish college, only modern president didn't have a college degree, they both of their particular political the machinations or their own self education. in ronald reagan's defense case it is the years in hollywood and traveling around the country when he's reading of the early modern classics of the american conservative...
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do you think jeb bush is right when he said ronald reagan and george h.w. bush would not be acceptable to today's republicans? is that what you are seeing in congress? >> we are. the moderates have been whipped in the republican party with the great example of that, of course was in indiana but there is examples all over the country of where in these primaries, and it's true in the republican primary, in the republican primaries for that we saw governor romney flipflop and go far right in order to try to be nominated. he made that decision obviously that he was going to go and up and downer to the far right of his party. he did it, and i hope the american people and i believe the american people will sense that he flip-flopped in order to -- for his own political gain but he is, therefore, unreliable as a leader. >> all right. carl, thank you so much for joining us inside the war room. >> that's michigan senator carl levan and coming up, the sound of opportunity knocking has become a rarity for an increasing number of americans. nobel prize winning economis
do you think jeb bush is right when he said ronald reagan and george h.w. bush would not be acceptable to today's republicans? is that what you are seeing in congress? >> we are. the moderates have been whipped in the republican party with the great example of that, of course was in indiana but there is examples all over the country of where in these primaries, and it's true in the republican primary, in the republican primaries for that we saw governor romney flipflop and go far right in...
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to get there you can do what ronald reagan and george washington did. they understood margaret thatcher's rules for stephen the argument then you win the vote. george washington denied that they were marching to climb on the votes in the snow storm had his officers greeted the opening pages of thomas kane's latest pamphlet which washington had asked him to write. he was the great pamphleteer with common sense and describe the declaration of independence and now it was turning out to be really hard. in july of 1776 had turned into a bitter and painful depressing and demoralizing series of defeats. when washington had the crisis which begins these are the times as washington said the first to win the argument then you in the war. people had to believe. i just came here tonight to say to you we have no reason to despair, no reason to back off, no reason to surrender but you have every reason to behave as americans. i look forward to questions. [applause] [applause] so, the speaker has been kind enough to give us a few minutes for questions and answers and
to get there you can do what ronald reagan and george washington did. they understood margaret thatcher's rules for stephen the argument then you win the vote. george washington denied that they were marching to climb on the votes in the snow storm had his officers greeted the opening pages of thomas kane's latest pamphlet which washington had asked him to write. he was the great pamphleteer with common sense and describe the declaration of independence and now it was turning out to be really...
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ronald reagan was in essence holding the states hostage. we're going to take all of this money away from you if you don't listen to us in the federal government. >> did they all buckle? >> they all buckled. even wisconsin although i think wisconsin was the second to last state. >> i'm sure grudgingly. >> very grudgingly. now of course the story is much earlier than that, the story of the federal government getting involved and speaking to a knowledgeable group of school teachers and historians and public historians, i don't have to tell you about prohibition. and the federal government's great social experiment. what i did have to tell my fellow guys here, this was about the legacy of prohibition. >> brian, seems to me from what you're saying alcohol drives the expansion of the federal state. >> that's exactly right. and one can make a very good case for big government, so called, beginning not with the new deal but beginning with prohibition. for those of you who want to say sayonara, good riddance to big government, we got rid of prohibit
ronald reagan was in essence holding the states hostage. we're going to take all of this money away from you if you don't listen to us in the federal government. >> did they all buckle? >> they all buckled. even wisconsin although i think wisconsin was the second to last state. >> i'm sure grudgingly. >> very grudgingly. now of course the story is much earlier than that, the story of the federal government getting involved and speaking to a knowledgeable group of school...